Re: Make doc; create-weblinks and translations

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Make doc; create-weblinks and translations


> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> I noticed that a lot of half-translated Czech pages contain a lot of
> stuff from the _German_ translation.  Now I don't know just the
> percentage of people in the Czech republic that would get along better
> with German rather than English, but the copied German passages are
> probably by now more outdated than their source (which is already
> downstream from the English one in terms of timeliness as well as
> naturalness of expression).
>
> At any rate, the question for me is whether we should not remove
> languages from the web altogether that are not actively maintained
> and/or reasonably complete.  It is misleading to characterize them as
> "manuals for 2.17" when they have not seen work since 2.12 or something.
>
> --
> David Kastrup

I believe many Czechs are also decent German speakers - I'm not, but at 
times I did better in Prague in German than English.  However, we do seem to 
have English as a default, so maybe it's better to use this when we have 
_no_ translation.

As for getting rid of unmaintained output - I agree on balance.  It would be 
interesting to be told which languages are actively maintained and which are 
moribund.  I expect getting them out of the build system to be as easy as 
getting a new one in.  i.e. hard....

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Phil Holmes